Overview
- Boston police and U.S. Marshals arrested 60-year-old Mark Sullivan early Tuesday in Brockton on a warrant charging him with photographing sexual or intimate parts of a child.
- The arrest stems from a reported incident at Boston Common’s Frog Pond when witnesses said a man used sunglasses with a hidden camera and a cellphone to record children, including some who were changing clothes.
- Witnesses confronted the suspect, who removed and tried to break the sunglasses, and officers later seized the damaged sunglasses and his cellphone as evidence.
- State records and news reports identify Sullivan as a registered sex offender with multiple prior convictions related to child sexual offenses dating back to 2001.
- Investigators say victims were not on scene when officers arrived and that forensic review of the seized devices and victim identification remain active ahead of an expected arraignment in Boston Municipal Court.